Exploring the Low Surface Brightness Universe with LSST

by Aline Chu

Tuesday 15 Oct 2024, 13:15 → 14:15 Europe/Stockholm

FA32 (AlbaNova Main Building)

After almost a decade of being under construction, the Vera. C Rubin Observatory and its 8.4-meter telescope, the Simonyi Survey Telescope, will finally be seeing their first light in the course of next year. From studying our solar system and mapping the Milky Way, to discovering new supernovae and helping us better constrain the nature of dark matter, the resulting survey, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), is expected to revolutionise astrophysics science in the next ten years in multiple domains. In the new era of multi-messenger astronomy, LSST will complement already existing missions such as GAIA or LISA -and others, by surveying the entire southern hemisphere with unprecedented depth. In this talk, we will focus on the Low Surface Brightness (LSB) science as seen thanks to LSST. From ultra-diffuse galaxies and dwarf galaxies, to tidal streams and intra cluster light, LSST will bring a new and better vision and comprehension of how galaxies evolve in our Universe.